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Revista Mexicana de Psicología
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DOUGLAS GREER, R.; SINGER-DUDEK, JESSICA; LONGANO, JENNIFER; ZRINZO, MICHELLE
THE EMERGENCE OF PRAISE AS CONDITIONED REINFORCEMENT AS A FUNCTION OF
OBSERVATION IN PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
Revista Mexicana de Psicología, vol. 25, núm. 1, junio, 2008, pp. 5-26
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Revista Mexicana de Psicología, Junio 2008
Volumen 25, Número 1, 5-26
THE EMERGENCE OF PRAISE AS CONDITIONED REINFORCEMENT AS A FUNCTION
OF OBSERVATION IN PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
LA EMERGENCIA DEL ELOGIO COMO REFORZAMIENTO CONDICIONADO EN FUNCIÓN DE LA
OBSERVACIÓN EN NIÑOS DE EDAD PREESCOLAR Y DE EDAD ESCOLAR
R. DOUGLAS GREER1, JESSICA SINGER-DUDEK, JENNIFER LONGANO AND MICHELLE ZRINZO
Teachers College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
Abstract: We tested the effects of an observational intervention on the conditioning of praise as a reinforcer with 2-school
age and 2-preschool age children for whom vocal praise did
not reinforce either performance (the emission of previously
learned operants) or learning (the acquisition of new operants).
Pre-intervention reversal designs for performance tasks showed
praise did not reinforce; similarly, baselines showed the children did not learn when praise was the reinforcer and corrections were done for learning new material. The intervention
consisted of multiple observational sessions in which each participant performed other performance tasks simultaneously with
a peer confederate un...